1. They always play for high stakes.

2. The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.

3. John doesn't do too well in the personality stakes.

4. They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes.

5. Britain lags behind in the European childcare stakes.

6. Ben wouldn't score very highly in the popularity stakes.

7. We're playing for high stakes here.

8. The Newmarket Stakes is always a popular race.

9. They were playing cards for high stakes .

10. The team is playing for enormous stakes - the chance to play in the final.

11. Drive two stakes into the ground about three feet apart.

12. The stowaways are trying to raise the stakes by refusing to eat until they are given money and aid.

13. We're going to pull up stakes and move to Montana.

14. Climbing is a dangerous sport and the stakes are high .

15. More important, it raised the stakes.

16. Nutty forbore to compete in the charm stakes.

17. Yet the stakes involved were not childish.

18. Dow Jones and Intel also have stakes in Sohu.

19. Inmil Dwarf, needs good soil and permanent stakes.

20. We are playing for big stakes here.

21. It was the highest stakes ever.

22. All these stakes are subdivided into other groups.

23. He raised the stakes when he could not win.

24. We mark off the limits of our lots with stakes.

25. Tall plants can be secured by tying them to stakes.

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26. In former times, prisoners' heads were impaled on pointed stakes.

27. By arresting the organisation's two top leaders the government and the army have now raised the stakes.

28. With only two points separating the top five players, the stakes are high as they enter the final round.

29. Ex-wife Alana demonstrates that she's still out in front in the glamour stakes at the ripe old age of 43.

30. Somewhere-maybe in the smoke-filled rooms of the Knickerbocker Club-there was a collective decision to raise the stakes.

1. They always play for high stakes.

2. The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.

3. We mark off the limits of our lots with stakes.

31. So, he pulled up stakes and moved to Allen County to oversee a farm.

32. One whiff - and they raise the stakes by digging deeper into their pockets.

33. We took up our positions, driving stakes into the ground in the usual pattern.

34. Vodafone, however, has a reputation of building up majority stakes in its company holdings.

35. Around the vases a half dozen metal stakes had been planted.

36. He found Zacco lightly intoxicated, and playing dice for high stakes among a circle of friends.

37. But if his mood was optimistic, the stakes have never been more serious.

38. The pressures on him, from all sides, were as tremendous as the stakes.

39. The pitch of politicians is more strident, the gauntlet is thrown down more quickly, the stakes get higher faster.

40. But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout.

41. The pressures of moving back and forth between such difficult roles are severe, and the stakes are high.

42. As exorcisms go, it was infinitely preferable to hurling verbal stakes at a callow Cambridge offspinner.

43. To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past. Napoleon Hill 

44. With us all jockeying for position in the status stakes, we can't afford for this to happen.

45. Gosden was undecided whether to pull Red Bishop out of Festival Stakes, fearing the ground would be too fast.

46. Instead, the corporation is hunting for stakes in both cable and satellite services.

47. What all of this means is that the stakes in the ad game are astronomical.

48. It's another race, the stakes are higher and this time you're being watched more closely by the authorities.

49. A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty.

50. And it is taking the unusual step of buying ownership stakes in some projects.

51. Antley has won the past five stakes he has ridden in.

52. He staked the doghouse into the ground with three stakes, all he had.

53. Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.

54. Carso owns controlling stakes in 12 companies, including outfits in the mining, auto parts, cigarette and retail industries.

55. Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them.

56. This has resulted in several of the unlisted equity stakes being valued at a big discount to the quoted investments.

57. Already surveyors' stakes were being driven to extend the toll road all the way to Niagara.

58. The Brezhnev leadership, like Stalin's,(http:///stakes.html) showed a proper regard for the political stakes in interstate rivalry.

59. Sellotape insulating tape for fixing plants to stakes; and Sellotape Outdoor Sticky Fixers for fixing hooks, and similar greenhouse items.

60. With the stakes so high, the lack of atmosphere on the terraces in the first half was a complete mystery.

61. Garah, who split a pastern last year, overcame a slow start to win the Stetchworth Maiden Stakes.

62. This might well be the word processor that puts WordStar right back on the map in the word processor stakes.

63. Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.

64. Of course much depends on how the current high stakes budget negotiations play out.

65. Gengold operates a total of 11 mines under management contracts and holds equity stakes in each.

66. This is a time of tension when the stakes may be high and a future plan hangs by a thread.

67. Although only fragments remain, Dunseverick manages not to be outdone in the legend stakes.

68. Birth rates soared and career women sank in prestige to the level of drop-outs in the great breeding stakes.

69. You thought you'd play - for higher stakes than those he was offering.

70. Although the under-18s can not trade shares themselves, adults can buy stakes in collective investment funds on their behalf.

71. In the town of Pisco, 125 miles south of the capital Lima, sales of crucifixes and wooden stakes are booming.

72. So this year, to be on the safe side, she had ordered a roll of chicken wire and metal stakes.

73. As an important by-product it will also make it difficult for prospective bidders to build up stakes in secret.

74. With stakes this high, we have not dared to tamper with the basic concept of motherhood.

75. I can only presume that Lucker has failed in the macho stakes.

76. This time the stakes are higher than ever: the very future of Moscow's most important military ally.

77. So we sat on our hands about Sally, because we thought the stakes were higher than the National Enquirer.

78. The higher stakes have increased the temptation to overload the inflatable speedboats, called Zodiacs.

79. Because this year Congress is up for grabs, the stakes are higher, and the guessing is compounded.

80. The May Hill Stakes, frequently an early guide to the following year's Classics, is much more tricky to predict.

81. The following season, Nijinsky took the Gladness Stakes on his reappearance and then won five successive championship races.

82. Literary rivalry raised the stakes in the unfolding family romance.

83. Fan said it wants to move away from being strictly a holding company, with minority stakes in large listed companies.

84. For those smaller plant bakery companies who can not compete in these volume stakes the choice is quite clear.

85. Especially when the players themselves happily accept the high stakes for which they play, gambling with their bodies.

86. But they are aware, too, that the stakes involved in Mr Gorbachev's visit are uncommonly high.

87. She is deeply involved in litigation and negotiations in which the potential stakes for city residents are massive.

88. Banks own small stakes of their own and can rally support against a bidder.

89. With ￡21 billion of Tessas reaching maturity this year, the stakes are high.

90. The stakes with a child under the age of eight are high for a corneal transplant, Song explains.

91. The afternoon will feature three stakes and a closely watched maiden race.

92. The move puts off a decision on the question for at least several months, but it may well raise the stakes.

93. The erosion of investment grade credits, though, would raise the stakes for banks.

94. But commander-in-chief Douglas MacArthur wanted to play for higher stakes.

95. Quackenbush is confident the timetable can be met, especially since the financial stakes are so high.

96. But he rolled back the years wearing his old jockeys' uniform in the Radcliffe Selling Stakes at Nottingham.

97. About 65 percent of Gold Fields' earnings are from dividends paid by gold mines in which it has equity stakes.

98. Our family pulled up stakes every few years when Dad was in the Army.

99. As a three-year-old he was unplaced in his first four races then ran a good second in the Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick.

100. I have relatively high stakes in conformity - I happen to have done fairly well out of it.

101. Any claim of a new treatment for dyslexia is certain to be controversial, in part because the stakes are so high.

102. They had been in dangerous situations before but none where the stakes were so high.

103. The stakes were that high; the pressure on her was that great.

104. The primary purpose of the SARs is to restrict the swift build-up of substantial stakes in a target company by dawn raids.

105. Fven when the stakes are high, his battle is not his own and he has, therefore, nothing to lose.

106. I can only presume that Lucker has failed in the macho stakes. Sea trout for supper.

107. Moreover, when a business pulls up stakes or downsizes, an entire program can wither overnight.

108. Often hailed as a jazz fusion pioneer himself, Pat Metheny is nevertheless no stranger in the Grab-a-Grammy stakes.

109. It carries huge implications for the shape of the armed services and huge stakes for U.S. foreign policy.

110. And the stakes are high - tribal peoples are intimidated, beaten and sometimes killed for opposing modern-day land grabs.

111. Tomatoes leaned on stakes, runner beans twined round a wigwam of canes and rambling roses rambled over their appointed places.

112. The residual stakes would eventually be placed in a new public company 51 percent owned by the Treasury.

113. In such circumstances, why raise the stakes by pursuing independence?

114. Well, maybe they do, but making any old noises is clearly not sufficient to enter the rationality stakes.

115. But they will be allowed to buy stakes of up to 15 percent and after five years the barriers will come down.

115. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

116. But precisely because the stakes are so high there is no excuse for ignoring nuances, glossing over contradictions and exaggerating faults.

117. The words may sound harsh, but the stakes are high.

118. I use hazel stakes, cut in the autumn after the sap has receded.

119. The elder Clarks and the Wrights had sold off their stakes.

120. Despite the stakes, the Super Tuesday states, especially Texas, have been quiet so far.

121. Thus stereotypes that had confidently been buried with stakes through their hearts rose up to stalk women once more.

122. One other body deserves mention, though it is very small fry in the financial stakes.

123. Surprisingly not: New York just pipped Florida in the visitor stakes, though only just.

124. China's nearest competitor in the new-build stakes is Russia.

125. Old palings mended with stakes pilfered from the...hedges.

126. Always plant stakes to skewer your own cavalry on.

127. Let's pull up stakes and get out of here.

128. An amateur shouldn't play roulette for high stakes.

129. The stakes get higher with each round of one-upmanship.

130. The site of the condominium is enclosed with stakes.

131. Sometimes, you pull up stakes and go home.

132. The times are too serious , the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook.

133. The Beijing municipality, for example, has stakes in about 16,000 local businesses.

134. However, since the stakes are so high, that hasn't stopped teams of enterprising physicists from trying to solve superstring theory.

135. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Jerusalem on a high - stakes diplomatic mission.

136. The Princess Royal was the lowest ranking royal in the beauty stakes, according to the poll.

137. In addition to Stakes, other participants in the trial were the University of Tampere, the University of Tartu and the National Institute for Health Development (TAI) from Estonia.

138. The two nations also have stakes in ensuring sea-lane security, as well as shared concerns about Chinese access to the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.

139. Stakes everything on a single throw of the dice if the disposable investment does not have the plan, that result is unknown.

140. As ersatz investment banks, they make short - and long - term loans and take equity stakes.

141. Private and institutional shareholders are angry because the deal ignores their pre-emption rights – they should have first refusal on any new shares issued – and would dilute their stakes.

142. Belmont Stakes hopeful Mine That Bird sticks out his tongue as he stands to be washed following a morning workout at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York June 5.

143. All rock outcrops are intended to be an integral part of the course, unless defined by blue stakes. The ball must be played as it lies or declared unplayable (Rule 28).

144. A real adventure story in the fascinating world of high - stakes robbery!

145. Beneath the freezing surface of Jarfjord, east of Kirkenes(), the red king crab stakes a strong claim to be Arctic Norway's most unusual inhabitant.

146. This in turn, will increase the stakes of multi-nationals in India's well being and marginalise sanction regimes.

147. The nation's total residential mortgage debt outstanding rose by $1.176 trillion in that year, even though Fannie's and Freddie's stakes rose by only $169 billion, just 14.4 percent of the total.

148. Optimists insist opportunities still abound, but the stakes are undisputedly higher.

149. But management believes Nomura has no choice but to push ahead with its high stakes gamble.

150. A game, usually played for money or stakes, in which the winner is determined by a chance event, as by drawing numbers or throwing dice.

151. Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Belarus's maverick leader, upped the stakes by ordering a cut in transit shipments of Russian gas to the EU, arguing it was also owed money.

152. Eugene O'Donnell, a professor of law and police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the stakes for all sides were high.

153. Male bisexuality poses an even greater threat: The stakes of being "a little bit gay" are so much higher for men than for a women.

154. Absurd side effects occur when people are afraid to concede that they will break the rules if the stakes are high and there is any prospect of getting off scot-free.

155. If that's the problem , maybe you should pull up stakes.

156. S. law surrounding patent enforcement has changed substantially and the stakes have gone order of magnitude.

157. The stakes continued to rise, some betting two, some three taels , so Trinket put on two and won two; with the next throw he lost one tael.

158. We had to conduct this confrontation for high stakes in the midest of a Watergate crisis.

159. Democrats in Congress have called on Obama to make a personal appeal for the bill which is on a high stakes course this week.

160. The political stakes for the president and congregational democrats congressional Democrats are enormous.

161. There was no doubt in my mind about the geopolitical stakes.

162. So, parents, lighten up . The stakes have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can rationalize our pushiness .

163. More than 107,000 people attended the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore to watch Shackleford speed to victory on Saturday.

164. Those who were not able to strike down the stakes should believe in God devoutly.

165. For a criminal the stakes are higher and the dividing lines sharper.

166. It's a hole new look for the Polo. Volkswagen is upping the stakes for its long-serving supermini in a bid to keep up with the trendy new Ford Fiesta.

167. Skilled archery unit lightly armoured but equipped with a large shield. Able to lay stakes at start of battle.

168. For many women, profession and family are pitted against one another on a high - stakes collision course.

169. Red Stakes: Lateral Water Hazard, include all unmarked rice field.

170. Italy's financial crunch has prompted Rome to consider selling stakes in major state-owned companies such as power utility Enel or oil and gas supplier Eni, according to news reports.

171. The company runs google. cn, its China-registered website, in a joint venture with a domestic partner, as Chinese law bars -foreigners from holding controlling stakes in the internet content business.

172. The stakes only get higher as you and your marriage age and you have children or other large financial responsibilities.

173. Besides the usual jumping, falling and tumbling, performers will also show their excellent techniques by climbing upon a high table or by stepping on five wooden stakes.

174. The intellectual stakes are high, but, unfortunately, the novelistic means are limited.

175. Men pull up stakes in the Russian village of Muslyumovo,(http://) literally disassembling an older home so that it can be moved from the heavily contaminated region to a new location.

176. It could borrow cash and return it to shareholders via a special dividend, or use the funds to boost stakes in firms such as Chile's SQM or China's Sinofert.

177. The stakes are high, including the risk of default, ruined credit, lost opportunities to attend graduate school or buy a home, or even wage garnishment.

178. laissez-faire French capital theoretically stricter than hardline Sudan in the fashion stakes.

179. And when investment banks start losing money, they pull up stakes and evacuate from the corporate lending market to cut their exposure.

180. New Zealand is showing that it, too, is ready to play its part in the great Antipodean censorship stakes.

181. Thousands of wisterias will climb on as many vertically - assembled stakes.

182. As with the magazine consortium , media companies own equity stakes in Hulu.

183. Talk about the stakes, not name call but tell the facts.

184. They stopped near the river and rove stakes for the night.

185. To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring, migrating north to find more flowers for their bees.

186. After sprinkling sea salt onto the fish, the chef carried them over to a fire pit, plunged two stakes into the ash and propped the fish on their sides to roast against the flames.

187. And for a head start in the CV stakes, try listing your volunteer history.

188. He is going to be a stock broker and he stakes his entire future on that goal.

189. Brazil's national development bank, BNDES, and some state-run pension funds will also hold stakes in the merged company.

190. Stakes: cut tie technicality energy and undirectional membrane consistent behavioural.

191. That history lesson will not be lost on Chancellor Angela Merkel. But the stakes today are immeasurably higher, both for Germany and the world economy.

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192. Memory stakes a trail in a roadless land as a Saami, or Lapp, herder heads for his reindeer herd 30 miles(48 kilometers) from Lovozero.

193. Once his stovepipe was raised and the stakes driven in, he opened the low wooden door for his wife, Norvoo; their baby boy, Ulaka; and their six-year-old daughter, Anuka.

194. To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring.

195. The threat of the government taking stakes would scare off some private investors.

196. Dr. Ronald Crystal, chairman of the department of genetic medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, knows those stakes all too well.

197. What the OMB statement did do, however, was up the stakes in what is setting up to be a contentious, high-stakes period before the government runs out of money in a matter of weeks.

198. Unfortunately the result is more a mild korma than hot vindaloo in the spicing up stakes.

199. The reason he wrote the word down was because he was trying to convince other Englishmen to pull up stakes in the old country and help swell the European population in the settlement.

200. Chinalco was to have paid $12.3bn for stakes in Rio's iron ore, copper and aluminium assets and $7.2bn for convertible notes that would double its equity stake in Rio to 18%.

201. In the high stakes world of dog breeding and dog competitions, the verification of a purebred dog's lineage will soon have high-tech support.